MIDSUMMER'S DAY, long celebrated as the greatest festival of them all.

Summer now firmly established, Druid tradition recommends excursions on the water & beach parties (a form of celebration continued by the Cornish well into the Middle Ages, despite an attempt at suppression by King Canute in the 11th Century).

"Bitter Bierce" — American newspaper columnist, satirist, essayist, short-story writer & novelist, disappeared in the Mexican Revolution. Presumably died in the siege of Ojinega, January 1914. Strongly influenced by Edgar Allan Poe. His experiences in the Civil War marked him for life.

Jack London noted of the cynical author of The Devil's Dictionary:

"Bierce would bury his best friend with a sigh of relief, & express satisfaction that he was done with him."

In 1909 Durupt is one of a group of friends who form the "Fédération révolutionnaire" qui préconise l'emploi de "l'action directe" for "La destruction radicale de la société capitaliste et autoritaire". Others in the group include Rene de Marmande, Jean Goldschild, Miguel Almereyda (Eugène Vigo; his adopted name, Almereyda, is an anagram: Y'a la merde), & others. Vigo, father of the famed film director Jean Vigo, died in prison under mysterious circumstances.

"...a slight shock was felt, upon the 24th of June, at Colchester, showing that the phenomena were continuing. ...Was not the loud report heard upon February 18 probably an explosion in the sky, inasmuch as the sound was great & the quake was little? Were not succeeding phenomena sounds & concussions & the fall of debris from explosions in the sky, acceptably upon April 22,
& perhaps continuing until the 24th of June?"

In his youthful, formative years, Picasso was politically linked with the international anarchist movement, & his art often betrayed this. French police kept him under surveillance for nearly 40 years — & when the Spanish-born painter applied for citizenship the authorities could not decide whether he was an anarchist or a communist so they ruled him undesirable just in case. He later became a Communist Party member, though never particularly an enthusiastic one.

In March of the same year, another 60 union miners were deported & told never to come back. On April 5, the Telluride Mine Owners' Association delivered the following statement, "We do not propose to enter into negotiations of any nature with the Western Federation of Miners. We do not recognize a union in Telluride. There is no strike in Telluride. There is nothing to settle." After three-months of hardship, the union was broken.

Ernesto Sabato

His first literary success Uno y el universo ("One & the Universe," 1945), published after being removed from his teaching post for his opposition to the government, it is a series of aphorism, statements, & personal observations on diverse philosophical, social, & political matters. His first novel, El túnel ("The Outsider"), brought him fame.

Sabato also authored the online prologue to Nunca Más (Never Again): Report of Conadep (National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons) - 1984:

The suddenness flowers have
startled the air
with their fire & ether
as we do with what is ours
because we are
the gardeners of each other.

— The Gold

Worked with, & wrote about, the shoe-industry workers in Lynn, &, later, the fisher folk in Gloucester, Massachusetts. It was also there that Ferrini became friends with Charles Olson, whose theory of Projective Verse catalyzed the Beats. Ferrini & Olson were both friends & literary competitors...

1919 -- US: Following an attack on the house of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Attorney General Palmer on June 2, 1919, the
Italian anarchist Luigi Galleani & collaborators on the newspaper Cronaca Sovversiva are expelled from the country.

1933 -- Dramatic soprano Matilda Sissieretta Jones dies of cancer. Called "the first Negro prima donna," Jones toured with the Tennessee Jubilee Singers & performed at Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Garden & at the White House in 1892. She was dubbed "Black Patti," a name she disliked for its allusion to white contemporary, Adelina Patti.

In 1926 Fabbri went into exile to escape the fascist regime, taking refuge in France, Belgium, &, finally, after being expelled several times, in Uruguay.... Luigi Fabbri died prematurely in the thick of the struggle...

1943 -- México: Otto Rühle (1874-1943) dies. German Left communist of the Spartacist League (anti-Leninist, it included Liebknecht, Luxemburg, Mehring, et al. Council Communists have much in common with libertarian communism & most strains of anarchism).

John Dean, Counsel to President Nixon, described a "siege mentality" in the White House. Dean testified Nixon approved a plan to use wiretaps, burglary & other forms of surveillance against citizens he considered radical or subversive.

Dean also made public a White House "enemies list" of 256 persons in the media, business, entertainment, politics & the academic world. The idea was to "use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies" through such government actions as tax audits.

He also said the CIA was used to "block a full FBI investigation of Watergate."

BBC reports that in 1975 Absenteeism is widespread, accounting for 8-1/2% of all working time. There are frequent descriptions of workers lining up at 7a.m. to buy bottles of vodka instead of going to work.

A survey in Wroclaw concluded that absenteeism this year is up 33% & that 2/3 of the absent workers are between 23 & 29 years old.

Barely out of the womb Laude was subject to the torments of history — his communist father went off to Spain in the International Brigades, & then, in 1942, his Polish-Jewish mother was sent to Auschwitz (where she died).

In 1953, Laude discovered anarchist ideas & joined the Libertarian Communist Federation. In 1954, as an anti-colonialist journalist, he supported the Algerian revolutionists & was arrested, in Paris, & imprisoned for a year in a camp in the South-Sahara where he underwent torture.

When he was freed, Laude joined a news service in Algiers, returning to France only after the fall of Ben Bella (1965) & was again arrested, this time for "collaborating with the enemy." The surrealists, especially Benjamin Péret & André Breton (who testified in his behalf) took up his cause, & Laude joined their movement.

Poetry now became Laude's "raison de vivre," rather than journalism. Politically he was briefly involved with the PSU (Left Socialist Unified), but in 1968, as a friend of Raoul Vaneigem, Guy Debord & Dany Cohn-Bendit, he participated in the l'internationale situationniste. He remained, basically, a libertarian & a true poet until his death.

June 24, 2000 — BleedMeister (Anti-)Dave & Co. begin moving back into their humble digs after a four month sojourn through hell — where the bleeding never stops — following a nasty little house fire back on February 15 which left them homeless, wandering the streets more aimlessly than usual.

2002 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader George Dubya Bush calls for the replacement of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Yassir Arafat as head of the Palestinian Authority. As of this date in 2004, neither has seemingly beheaded the other.

2005 -- Italy: A judge orders the arrest of 13 people linked to the CIA on charges of kidnapping terrorism suspect Abu Omar in order to have him tortured in Egypt dramatizes a growing rift between the US & its allies in the War on Terrorism.

2013 -- Italy: Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gets seven years in prison for abusing his power & having sex with an underage prostitute.

3000 --

CAPITAL, n.
The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table & the knife & fork for the
Anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disgrace before meat. Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice & expediency of which many worthy persons — including all the assassins — entertain grave misgivings.

3500 --

"When our work is done, advertising & billboards will fly beside the soviet flag in the museum of dead totalitarian experiments"